Dear Greg: My mother is 75 years old and a die-hard Magic fan. Comcast couldn't provide coverage of her beloved team so she opted for DirecTV, which allowed her to watch the games. Sometimes she would spend hours on the phone with customer service to get the TV set configured to show the games. Recently she moved into an assisted-living facility that will not allow the dish to be installed ...

Filed under: HDTV , Home Entertainment Generally, we'd pass something like this off as just coincidence, but when over 95% of 1,000+ respondents confess to sharing the same issue, we simply can't turn the other cheek. It's assumed that DirecTV botched up a software update early this morning that affected a number of HR2X set-tops . Over at DBSTalk , the vast majority of readers ...

The special presentation concert will be included in DIRECTV Pay-Per-View. Video Games Live will perform at Blizzard Entertainment's BlizzCon 2008 gaming convention, taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA over the 10th and 11th of October.

Wall Street’s outlook for Dish Network became even gloomier last week on the news that Charlie Ergen’s satellite company had lost its reselling deal with AT&T, with rival DirecTV taking that prize.